2 Plantation men found guilty in Lauderdale homeless beating case

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbhomeless0919sbsep19,0,904050.story

From the article: Anywhere from 40 years to life in prison. That's the sentence range a judge will consider before imposing penalties on two Plantation men convicted of murder Friday in the baseball bat beating death of a homeless man nearly three years ago.

Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato will issue her sentence in late October.

Thomas Daugherty, 19, and Brian Hooks, 21, were convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder in the Jan. 12, 2006, spate of attacks on homeless men in Fort Lauderdale. Norris Gaynor, 45, who had been sleeping on a park bench, died of a broken skull.

After the verdict, Gaynor's family, who expressed sympathy for the defendants' families but not the killers, called for legislation to have violence against the homeless classified as hate crimes and gave voice to their grief.


In this case, justice wasn't blind.

My mother talked to them over the weekend. It's been so very hard on them. They were our neighbors until they retired to Florida some years ago.

It's different when you know those names in the news.

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1. Afternoon kick

:kick:

[malaise]

2. Throw away the keys

Adios you heartless bastards.